WE'VE MOVED

We are now here: www.britinbrooklyn.com There's a bigger, clearer layout and more galleries. Please update your links and feeds so you don't miss out. Happy New Year!

Brit in Brooklyn Subscribers: Come See the New Home!

We disappeared again on the new site but we really are up and running again now. For those of you who have us in your RSS Feed readers you may want to update your settings. The blog has officially moved so here's the new feed: http://britinbrooklyn.squarespace.com/britinbrooklyn_photo_blog/rss.xml or click this: We've decided to move away from Blogger for now. We don't like the idea that the blog can be frozen or turned off indefinitely at any moment by a pumped-up google spider spam robot thing. You can always get to our latest home with www.britinbrooklyn.com The new place is better equipped and we even managed to move the old archive across. See you over there!

We're Back on Blogger - Well Almost

So we can post again, at last, not that we got a notification or anything - we just happened to be checking in. For now we are backing everything up to our own servers but to do that we had to use a 'classic' blogger template. If the blog is displaying strangely that will be why. While we try and figure it all out and get the design back up you can pop over to our standby here. We will let you know how you can back up your Blogger pages once we know it's worked for us! Thanks for your patience.

Desktop Day: Happy Hanukkah

Tuesday night saw the Hanukkah lighting ceremony at Grand Army Plaza. According to the Brooklyn Paper a competing ceremony was held at Borough Hall, WHERE THE MENORAH WAS ONE FOOT HIGHER (PWNED!). Click on the image to open the large version. The top picture is PC format and the bottom for the wider screen Mac.

Public Hearing on the Disposal of Admirals Row

On Tuesday there will be a chance to have a say and listen to proposals for the future of the threatened Navy Yard Admirals Row buildings. Hosted by Lt. Col. Mike Milord of the Air National Guard, the public hearing will take place ar P.S. 307 (202 York Street @ Gold Street in DUMBO). Tuesday Dec 11, 7PM - For information call 1-703-607-2780 or view the announcement here. Scott Witter, founder and curator of Brooklyn's Other Museum of Brooklyn, is fighting to have the historically and architecturally significant buildings landmarked. Maybe you saw his publicity drive at the weekend?

Brooklyn Public Library

The Brooklyn Public Library as you see here is by Githens and Keally and was completed in 1941. However there was a 1908 design by Raymond F. Almirall for a Beaux Arts structure. A skeleton was completed before financial problems halted the project, and so the later Art Moderne design had to stick to the Almirall form. The gilded reliefs are by Carl Paul Jennewein who also has murals in the spectacular lobby of the Woolworth Building.

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